Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of
development economics with
recent empirical studies showing that that economic growth is
important for poverty reduction.
However, it has also been recognized that the distribution of
assets, opportunities and incomes
influences the effect of growth on poverty reduction. For
poverty reduction to occur, the
relevance of distribution and, as well, the importance of
sources of growth has been
underscored. The challenge is to influence...